œkist

A form of oecist — A founder of a colony.

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Meanings

nounœkist (plural œkists)

plural œkists

  1. alternativeAlternative form of oecist.

    Especially it is to be noticed, that the œkist was a Corinthian and a Herakleid, Phalius the son of Eratokleidés—for according to the usual practice of Greece, whenever a city, itself a colony, founded a subcolony, the œkist of the latter was […]

    1869, George Grote, History of Greece, page 404
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Chicago

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